windows cannot find 127.0.0.1

[mohsen_fakhari]

Hi
I've a problem reaching \\127.0.0.1
When I type it in windows explorer,I got an error message:
windows cannot find '127.0.0.1'...
It's winXP SP2 on P3 and I disable my Norton Internet Security
What's wrong?
I hadn't this problem before.
Any thing is appreciated

 

[Clark]

Hi
I've a problem reaching \\127.0.0.1
When I type it in windows explorer,I got an error message:
windows cannot find '127.0.0.1'...
It's winXP SP2 on P3 and I disable my Norton Internet Security
What's wrong?
I hadn't this problem before.
Any thing is appreciated

in your web browser look under connections, look for a proxy setting and
disable it

Clark

 

[Newbie Coder]

Moshen,

Do you have IIS installed?

http://127.0.0.1 or type localhost

\\127.0.0.1 won't exist

 

[Vanguard]

I've a problem reaching \\127.0.0.1
When I type it in windows explorer,I got an error message:
windows cannot find '127.0.0.1'...

\\127.0.0.1 is an invalid UNC. That specifies just the host, not a
path on that host. If I told you to go to Orlando, that doesn't tell
you which house to deliver a package. You can't do anything at the
host. You need to specify some *path* on that host. For example, if
you had a directory called "C:\Tools" and created a share on that
directory called "tools" then you would enter \\127.0.0.1\tools to get
there using a UNC.

Go read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(computing)#Uniform_Naming_Convention

 

[mohsen_fakhari]

Unfortunately \\localhost doesn't work too.Just the same error
message.
And I don't think I need IIS because I want to show shared places on
my computer
not the default page of IIS.
Thank you

 

[jorgen]

\\127.0.0.1 is an invalid UNC. That specifies just the host, not a path
on that host.

Normally that works just fine. Only entering the hostn usually lists all
(visible) shares on the computer

 

[Vanguard]

in message

Normally that works just fine. Only entering the hostn usually lists
all (visible) shares on the computer

And if the OP doesn't have a currently defined shares?

 

[jorgen]

And if the OP doesn't have a currently defined shares?

It will just show that it doesn't have any shares. It won't say it
cannot connect.

A newly installed computer might adjust its policies/firewall when you
share a folder for the first time.

 

[mohsen_fakhari]

Yes,My poor PC! was just as jorgen sais.
\\127.0.0.1 was fine before but now... .

 

[mohsen_fakhari]

Yes,My poor PC! was just as jorgen sais.
\\127.0.0.1 was fine before but now... .

 

[Vanguard]

Yes,My poor PC! was just as jorgen sais.
\\127.0.0.1 was fine before but now... .

Does your firewall have an option to skip loopback UDP and TCP
connections? What happens if you disable your firewall?

What happens if you use the LAN-side IP address of your NIC (i.e., the
IP address assigned to the external interface of your NIC)?

 

[mohsen_fakhari]

Does your firewall have an option to skip loopback UDP and TCP
connections? What happens if you disable your firewall?

What happens if you use the LAN-side IP address of your NIC (i.e., the
IP address assigned to the external interface of your NIC)?

It has some rules for loopback connetions and it is to permit them.
As I said I disable the firewall when I test localhost but it doesn't
work.
And it is the same LAN-side IP too,but from other computers everything
is Okay

 

[mohsen_fakhari]

Although I think it's not related to IE (because I don't want the web
server to responde)
proxy settings are disabled